The Rules

3. Your picture cannot be digitally altered. If we even THINK it's digitally altered, we'll toss it. (Yeah, we stole that rule from Bungie. It's a good rule.)

4. Your picture must not have been entered in last year's contest at Bungie.net (or sent to us anytime since then; entries received before September 30 are void).

5. You must have a mailing address within the continental US or Canada. (Sorry about this one. The box is NTSC Region 1; you couldn't use it with normally-available games in Europe anyway.)

The Judging

Entries will be judged by the Halo community. Images will be put up in a gallery, starting November 1, and will be accessible for voting for one week. Votes can be cast by anyone with a valid email address (but if we suspect ballot stuffing, we're tossing ALL your votes - again, don't even give us a REASON to suspect you). Winners will be announced sometime after November 9th.

This is a pure popularity contest - make a pumpkin everyone thinks is the coolest, you'll win.

How to Submit Your Entry (or entries):

You have three options for getting your contest entries to us:

Upload them to ftp://ftp2.bungie.org/halouploads/ using an FTP client Update: Apologies - our FTP area was closed down in order to defeat the nasty people who were using our generosity to serve illegally-leaked Halo 2 material. Use this upload page instead.

If whatever you're using to upload files does not like this option, send us email at lantern@bungie.org, and we can set you up with a more conventional ftp option.

Upload them to any webspace that you might have, and we can download them ourselves from there

Send us a photo (or a CD, if you must) in the mail (the address is given below)

After you have done one of these three things, you need to send us an e-mail at lantern@bungie.org. Include the following information in your e-mail:

Your name (or your online handle if you don't want us to use your name)

The e-mail address where we should contact you

How you sent your entry to us (was it an ftp upload, on your webspace, or in the mail?)

Where we can find your entry -- if it was an ftp upload, give us the filename of the upload. If it's on your own web space, give us the URL of the file to download. If you sent it in the mail, tell us what the return address on the package is.

Make sure that you include ALL of the information that we ask for. Incomplete entries will be discarded.